Part I Towards a Theory of Utopian Sociability --
1 Redefining Utopianism for a Post-consumer Society --
2 The Mythical Background: Remembering Original Equality --
3 Theories of Realised Utopianism --
Part II Utopian Sociability in Fiction and Practice --
4 The Varieties of Utopian Practice --
5 Luxury, Sociability, and Progress in Literary Projections of Utopia: from Thomas More to the Eighteenth Century --
6 The Triumph of Unsocial Sociability? Luxury in the Eighteenth Century --
Part III Luxury and Sociability in Later Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Utopianism --
7 The Later Eighteenth Century and the French Revolution --
8 Simplicity and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Utopianism --
Part IV Modern Consumerism and Its Opponents --
9 Twentieth-Century Consumerism and the Utopian Response --
10 Counterculture and Consumerism: The 1960s --
11 Life after Consumerism: Utopianism in the Age of Sufficiency --
Conclusion: The Great Change: Creating Enhanced Simplicity --
Afterword: Covid-19 and Sociability.
